Relative size perception at a distance is best at eye level

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 673-682

  Bertamini, Marco ^a,b   Yang, Tyrone L ^a   Proffitt, Dennis R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE SPACE HUMAN FACTORS; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE SPACE HUMAN FACTORS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032064734     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206054     Document Type: Article

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